ÉPAULETTES MATE

From the French ‘shoulder strap’. Any mate where the checkmated King stands at the edge of the board and is flanked by two defending pieces that bar its escape.

Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead! Mikhail Tal
1966
Time trouble is blunder time. Alexander Kotov
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from. Vishy Anand
2008
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent! Robert Fischer
Chess politic is not my dream, but I will be happy when we start to change things and organize a better chess life in the world. Anatoly Karpov
2010

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